The decision is one of the strongest yet to come out in opposition to the idea that secular for-profit companies with no formal ties to a church or other religious group may impose specific religious beliefs on their employees vis-a-vis refusing to comply with the birth control benefit.

Meanwhile, Hobby Lobby announced that it found a temporary work-around to complying with the benefit while its own legal challenge continues. Peter M. Dobelbower, general counsel for Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. said in a statement released through the Becket Fund, the conservative legal group representing many of the challengers that “Hobby Lobby discovered a way to shift the plan year for its employee health insurance, thus postponing the effective date of the mandate for several months.”

It’s clear that challenging the requirement that employer-provided health care plans include coverage for contraception at no additional co-pay is seen by the right as both a business opportunity and a means to re-litigate Obamacare. The question is not if the Supreme Court will weigh in, but how and when.